Reconciliation Team Leader

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Job Summary: Leads the execution and improvement of operational-accounting reconciliations, ensuring financial integrity and mitigating risks at HSBC. Key Highlights: 1. Lead the execution and continuous improvement of operational-accounting reconciliations. 2. Ensure the integrity of financial information and exception control. 3. Collaborate on automation projects and reconciliation design. If you're seeking a career where you can truly make an impact, join HSBC's Global Service Center (GSC) and discover how valuable you will be. HSBC is one of the world's largest banking and financial services organizations, with operations in 64 countries and territories. Our goal is to be where growth is, enabling businesses and economies to thrive, and ultimately helping people fulfill their dreams and achieve their goals. **Reconciliation Team Leader** **Purpose of the Role** Lead the execution and continuous improvement of operational-accounting reconciliations, ensuring financial information integrity, exception control, adherence to service levels and Finance guidelines, timely mitigation of institutional risks, and enabling efficiencies through standardization and automation. Manage, perform, and assure reconciliation services; coordinate and support internal/external audits; manage internal control and DBIRO activities in accordance with Bank standards. May conduct queries across various operational and accounting systems of the institution to perform job functions. **Key Responsibilities** * Execute area plans and implement actions facilitating team activities, ensuring operational continuity and objective achievement. * Participate in and support area activities to meet goals, improvement plans, and delivery commitments. * Fulfill guarantees/SLAs established with internal customers, managing priorities and response times. * Manage and perform reconciliations to identify operational-accounting exceptions or discrepancies across various processes; follow up on their timely and proper correction to avoid or mitigate institutional risks. * Design, maintain, and strengthen operational-accounting reconciliations as part of the internal control environment, ensuring traceability, evidence, and consistency. * Prepare information for accounting balance certification per Finance guidelines, guaranteeing integrity and accuracy using data generated by the reconciliation team. * Respond to information requests from internal customers or suppliers (e.g., operational areas, global teams) and external parties (e.g., auditors), ensuring clarity, timeliness, and quality of delivered information. * Collaborate cross-functionally with local and global teams to resolve incidents and align accounting/operational criteria. * Identify and propose improvement initiatives to reduce operating time and/or increase process quality, contributing to efficiency and control. * Participate in new operational process projects to design reconciliations from inception (“control by design”). * Participate in automation projects for reconciliation-related activities, driving standardization, error reduction, and scalability. * Train, advise, and supervise operational-accounting reconciliation processes, promoting consistency, best practices, and control compliance. **Functional Knowledge** * Banking Accounting – Intermediate * Knowledge of operational processes * Preferably familiar with at least one operational system * Experience/skills in handling operational processes, critical situations, self-direction, innovation, and continuous improvement. Proactivity; experience in process documentation. * Communication skills: written and verbal **Other** * **Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or Business Administration** * Language: basic English * Primary Office suite: Excel (formulas, pivot tables, etc.), Word, PPT At HSBC, we offer our employees additional days off to fully enjoy their wedding, care for a new family member, or grieve the loss of a loved one. Our paid vacation package is industry-leading in Mexico—now you have another reason to be HSBC and proudly live a culture of wellbeing, balance, and care. At HSBC, we expect our people to treat each other with dignity and respect, creating an inclusive culture that promotes equal opportunity. Our values define who we are as an organization and what sets us apart—we value difference, advance together, take responsibility for our actions, exercise sound judgment, do the right thing, and get things done. At HSBC, we are committed to ensuring gender equality and providing ongoing training to our employees, as well as protecting their labor and social rights. Personal data held by the Bank in connection with employment applications will be used in accordance with our Privacy Statement, available on our website. ***Issued By HSBC Electronic Data Process Mexico Private LTD***